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Check in once more to Petticoat Junction, whose sophomore
season is coming to DVD with all 36 black-and-white episodes.
Created by Paul Henning (The Beverly Hillbillies), it chronicles
Kate Bradley, who is both owner of the Shady Rest Hotel
and mediator to daughters Betty Jo, Billie Jo, and Bobbie
Jo. Petticoat was one of several popular "Southern" and
"rural"-driven shows on CBS throughout the 1960s, and after
a strong first year, ratings started to drop in the second
season, as the show was ranked #15. Still, the sitcom remain
popular in its seven-year run until being cancelled in 1970,
a year before the "purge". ***
This season finds Jeannine Riley and Pat Woodell checking
out as Bobbie Jo and Billie Jo, as it starts with Betty
Jo being a woman's best friend - a dog, but can she keep
the dog?. Other episodes this season include Uncle Joe having
a crush on a visiting librarian, and writing love letters
to the woman who left him at the altar -- and married the
best man; he tries a career as a bounty hunter, as Kate
becomes a volunteer firefighter, and the Bradley clan comes
together in a two-parter when they tried to save the hotel
from foreclosure. ***
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